Fang Yuan squinted slightly, looked straight at the woman singing a minor key on the stage in the distance, and said lightly, "Nanjing's Shi Kefa is ambitious and talented, and he is not afraid at all. We only need to send 5,000 soldiers and horses to the border and make a posture of attacking Nanjing first. I dare to conclude that it will frighten the chickens and dogs in Nanjing, and the Ming army of the Nanjing Zhuwei will not dare to leave the Nanjing Guard Station for a single step, and will even withdraw to the city of Nanjing. ”

"I'll find the Yangzhou prefect Qu Congzhi, who is good friends with Shi Kefa, and let him maneuver around it, understand it with reason, and move it with affection, Shi Kefa's way, don't worry about it!"

Fang Yuan said again, "The whereabouts of Ma Shiying, the governor of the three provinces, are unknown, so I decided to dispatch Ma Lin to lead the 3,000 cavalry battalion and 5,000 infantry battalion sergeants to Yangzhou Mansion to the north, and the 5,000 infantry battalion will be stationed in Yangzhou Prefecture's Gaoyouwei, Yizhenwei, and Yangzhou Weisanwei. Three thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry raided Fengyang, Anqing, and Luzhou in three ways, and captured all the officials in the prefecture capital and county town that could be captured to the Taihu base, remembering not to hurt innocent officials and people. ”

This can be regarded as a lesson to Ma Shiying, offending the Xuanjia Army must pay a heavy price, saving this person from often coming to be the first bird. Ma Shiying's journey is not to worry! ”

Jing Jie nodded again and again when he heard this, and asked, "Boss, what about Zheng Zhilong?" ”

Fang Yuan said with a solemn face, "The other four roads are all chasing ducks to the shelves, and there is no actual conflict with us, if we really want to fight, that is, a few friendly matches." And the Zheng family's journey is definitely a tough battle with real guns, I'm really not sure. ”

"Guanhaiwei is too close to the Zhoushan Islands, although Commander Shi has extremely strong naval combat capabilities, Zheng Zhifeng is also proficient in naval warfare, and the number of warships in the Zheng family fleet has doubled, and it is really unknown whether Commander Shi can retreat from the enemy. Third, do you have a good plan? ”

Jing Jie said, "Boss, just competing with the water division, the Xuanjia Army is still lagging behind, I think it is still necessary to send land support." Chigutai led 10,000 cavalry, Li Zongze led a 500 artillery battalion, with 300 artillery pieces to march quickly, using the previous method of capturing Guanhaiwei, detoured to Hangzhou Bay, directly attacked Guanhaiwei from land, and responded to Shi's command of the naval battle on that side. Without the support of Guanhaiwei and the land-based, the Zheng fleet could only retreat to Fujian to recuperate, and could not confront the fleet led by Shi for a long time. ”

Fang Yuan agreed with his tactics, and then explained, "Third brother, you will stay at the Taihu Lake base, leaving two thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry and eight thousand step battalion sergeants. If there is a change in the direction of Nanjing, Chizhou Mansion, and Huizhou Mansion, be ready to respond to the battle situation on the battlefield at any time. ”

In order to repel the attack of the Zheng group, the Xuanjia army has done its best to support Shi Lang's sailor battalion, and the rest can only depend on Shi Lang's true ability to resist the attack of the Zheng family's main force.

Fang Yuan yawned, got up and said, "Okay! Everything is ready, you can chat with Zheng Zhibao, if you can scare him off with both soft and hard, it can be regarded as a battle situation under the command of Shi. ”

Negotiations begin!

Fang Yuan's side attended the negotiations, including Qin Zhan, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture and Tongzhi, as well as Xu Hua and Shen Xiang, who had gone to Zhejiang to open up trade routes. Businessmen should not have participated in this kind of military-political negotiation, but because it was related to the division of forces in Zhejiang, these two people had a more thorough understanding of Zhejiang than Fang Yuan.

Jing Jie, the commander of the Xuanjia Army, wanted to sit at the Taihu Military Base, paying attention to the war of all parties, and did not attend the negotiations.

Zheng Zhibao first presented Zheng Zhilong's letter, and Fang Yuan had read it cursoryly, which was nothing more than some clichés that the two parties would live in harmony and stop fighting.

Fang Yuan put Zheng Zhilong's letter, smiled slightly and said, "Yuwen! When did the Zheng family return to the imperial court? ”

The text is Zheng Zhibao's words, Zheng Zhibao saw that he was straight to the point, and said with an embarrassed smile, "Fang Junmen is laughing!" The Zheng family has long been submitted to the imperial court, and my eldest brother is now the chief soldier of Fujian, and he is also the governor of the capital. ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Yue Wen, you are pretending to be confused, what I am asking is when the Zheng family will land and make the Zheng family's sailors the sailors of the imperial court." ”

Zheng Zhi said with a smile on his face, "Fang Junmen doesn't know anything, and there are very few generals in the imperial court who are familiar with water warfare, and Zheng Zongbing can only work day and night, governing the maritime affairs in the southeast, and protecting the land and people of one side." If it weren't for the hard work of General Zheng, those Francis with white beards and red beards would have turned the southeast coast into a miasma. ”

Fang Yuan saw that he began to talk nonsense, so he accompanied him to continue acting, "There are also generals in naval warfare under the command of this army, and they can share the burden of Zheng Zong's army, as long as the Zheng family hands over the fleet, this army can also sweep away the redbeard on the island of Taiwan." ”

Zheng Zhibao coughed lightly, Fang Yuan was aggressive, if he didn't fight back, he would lose five points in momentum, how could he negotiate?

Zheng Zhibao smiled and said, "Fang Junmen really has this naval battle ability? Shi Lang's wall grass with milk is not credible! ”

Fang Yuan looked him straight in the eye and said, "Don't believe it? The Zheng family's fleet has already gone north, and we will see you on the battlefield when the time comes! ”

Zheng Zhibao took out an edict from the imperial court and handed it over to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan opened it and saw that it was a crusade edict ordered by the imperial court to take the Zheng fleet as the main force, and Nanjing, Sanfu, Chizhou, and Huizhou as the four routes.

Zheng Zhibao laughed and said, "The imperial court edict, the Zheng family can't disobey it!" But our Zheng Zongbing and Fang Junmen do not know each other, the heroes cherish each other, and they are willing to be this peacemaker, show Fang Junmen's loyalty to the imperial court, and stop fighting. ”

The imperial court's edict was expected by Fang Yuan, that is, to use Zheng Zhilong's naval fleet as the main force to consume Fang Yuan's strength. And Zheng Zhilong made it clear that he also wanted to preserve his strength, and he didn't want to be the first bird, and he would lose both sides with Fang Yuan, so that the court fishermen would benefit, so he would repeatedly want to negotiate peace with Fang Yuan.

Of course, the terms of the peace talks must be satisfactory to the Zheng Group, otherwise, the Zheng Group will never mind a decisive battle at sea with Fang Yuan under the containment and strategy of the other four routes.

Fang Yuan closed his eyes slightly and said, "What are the conditions for the Zheng family's peace talks?" ”

Seeing that he had finally talked about the right thing, Zheng Zhibao ordered his subordinates to take the conditions for the peace talks that had been written earlier, and said loudly, "Zheng Zongbing's peace talks have a total of three conditions. First, Zhejiang is the sphere of influence of both sides, of which Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo belong to Fang Junmen, and the rest of Taizhou, Yanzhou, Jinhua, Quzhou, Chuzhou, and Wenzhou belong to Zheng Zongbing. ”

This condition, within the scope that Fang Yuan could tolerate, after all, it would take a while to completely digest the five provinces of Zhejiang, and he would not continue to attack the southern provinces of Zhejiang within a year; Before the sailor was built, it was impossible to take the initiative to attack Zheng Zhilong. As for a year later, after digesting the five mansions of Zhejiang, when the time comes, you can find any reason to continue the war with Zheng Zhilong.

Peace talks are inherently time-limited, and if the terms of renegotiation will be renegotiated according to the strengths of the enemy and our forces, where will there be a treaty of eternal peace?

Fang Yuan nodded and said, "This condition is acceptable to this military sect." ”

Zheng Zhilong's face was happy, and he said, "Second, the two sides will share the profits of the maritime trade tax equally, and the Zheng family will collect the trade tax first every year, and then divide it in half to Fang Junmen. ”

The corners of Fang Yuan's mouth raised slightly, the Zheng family's condition was to treat Fang Yuan as a monkey, everyone knows that the profits of marine trade are by no means only trade taxes, it can even be said that trade taxes account for less than one percent of the profits, and the other ninety percent of the profits are marine smuggling.

This is the one with the most meager profits, and the Zheng family has to share it equally with Fang Yuan, which is playing monkey.

Fang Yuan coughed and said, "Shen Gongzi, Boss Xu, tell me, how much silk and porcelain are sold overseas by Suzhou Mansion every year through the regular channels of the City Shipping Division, and how much is smuggled?" ”

Shen Xiang said, "At least eighty percent of porcelain is smuggled, and less than twenty percent is smuggled through the city. ”

Xu Hua added, "Silk sales and smuggling account for 90 percent. ”

Fang Yuan smiled at Zheng Zhibao and said, "Yuwen, I heard it!" Why don't you give all the trade taxes to the Zheng family, and how about smuggling profits to the army? ”

Zheng Zhibao was suddenly seen through by Fang Yuan's careful thinking, and said, "Fang Junmen is really joking, heh!" Zheng Zongbing also has an alternative, add one more, but all the silver collected from the inbound trade will be owned by the Fang Junmen; How about returning to Zheng Zongbing who left the country? ”

The so-called silver collected is actually a protection fee for passing ships.

Fang Yuan still sneered secretly, Da Ming is a country with a trade surplus. Imported nothing more than cinnamon, cloves, spices, and some expensive Western things such as clocks and watches; The export is a large quantity of silk and porcelain.

Fang Yuan smiled and asked, "Governor Chen, what is the annual export value and import value of Suzhou Mansion?" ”

Chen Hongmi said, "The import trade volume accounts for less than half of the total; Exports accounted for more than eighty-five percent of the total. ”

Zheng Zhilong handed over the protection fee of export trade to Fang Yuan, that is, handed over less than 20% of the profits of maritime trade. It is this bit of profit that Fang Yuan's expedition to Guanhaiwei, Haimenwei, earned from the battlefield with hard work, otherwise the Zheng family would not even spit out this or two percent of the profits.

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Yue Wen, how about the silver for export trade and the silver for import trade to General Zheng Bing?" ”

Zheng Zhibao's face became more and more gloomy, whether it was export trade or import trade, the protection fees collected before were all owned by the Zheng family. Zheng Zhilong was willing to spit out five percent to Fang Yuan, and he already had an attitude of calming things down.

But Fang Yuan pressed forward step by step, and the lion opened his mouth, how can you talk about this?

Zheng Zhibao said in a deep voice, "It turns out that Fang Junmen doesn't want to talk about it at all? ”

Fang Yuan laughed and said, "Haha! Yuwen, you're right, this military gate really doesn't want to talk about it at this moment! ”